Bachelor of Arts Degree

Michael Feigin is Executive Vice President and Chief Construction Officer of AvalonBay Communities.Previously, Michael was Corporate Vice President of Global Procurement and Travel for AECOM, a Fortune 500 multinational.He was also a Managing Director for Navigant and the Global Construction Industry Practice Leader for Marsh Insurance Brokers.He has held several leadership positions with Canopy, Inc., WTC Captive, Bovis Lend Lease, and AvalonBay Communities.Michael sits on the board of several non-profit organizations.He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Yale University and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Michael is a dynamic construction industry executive with an unusually broad base of experience.He is firmly established as a thought leader in enterprise wide risk management, complex problem solving and dispute resolution, team building and insurance and surety strategy and structuring.
Michael is also known for building high performance teams focused on the highest level of client satisfaction to deliver superior results that exceed expectations and for his ability to solve the most complex problems.

Michael has extensive domestic and global experience at the most senior levels of premier organizations.
As Senior Vice President Corporate Operations for Tishman Construction, an AECOM Company, Michael is responsible, among other things, for assisting operations with the management of risk in North America.Michael also maintains a leadership role for Human Resources for Tishman and Global Procurement for AECOM.

Prior to joining Marsh, Michael was a Managing Director for Navigant Consulting working with clients to manage risk in their organizations.Prior to that, Michael was the Global Construction Industry Practice Leader for Marsh, the world's largest insurance broker and risk advisor.
At Marsh, Michael led a dedicated team of industry specialists and subject matter experts to help construction industry clients identify and manage risk, and design and implement their insurance and surety programs.
Prior to joining Marsh, Michael was Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer of Bovis Lend Lease Holdings, Inc., the parent company of all Bovis Lend Lease operating companies in the Americas.In his capacity as Chief Administrative Officer, Michael was responsible for Commercial Risk Management, Legal Services, Insurance and Bonding, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Corporate Affairs.Michael was the past President of Canopy, Inc., Lend Lease's Captive insurance company, and was on the Board of the WTC Captive, the insurance company established to cover liability at Ground Zero.Mr. Feigin also held the following positions at Bovis Lend Lease: Head of Risk, General Counsel, and General Manager of the Northeast Region.

Michael also was a Development Director for AvalonBay Communities, one of the largest residential REITs in the United States.He helped start AvalonBay's national high rise residential practice, working on such projects as Avalon on the Sound in New Rochelle, NY, and Avalon Riverview in Long Island City, NY.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Yale University and received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School.He has held several Board seats and has worked with several charitable and scholarly institutions including the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Junior Achievement.He is a regular speaker on issues concerning risk management, contract management, and trends and issues facing the construction industry.

"In the face of tough market conditions, many firms are focusing on operating efficiencies and expense reduction to take advantage of a resurgent construction market," says Michael Feigin, Navigant's managing director for construction.
"Firms are doing this, in part, by adopting technologies and techniques like BIM and lean construction."